Smoke and flames continue to engulf much of Canada, with Alberta imposing new evacuation orders, Manitoba bracing for heavy, lightning-generating thunderstorms and high wildfire risks and poor air quality from coast to coast.
As the Alberta election results showed, the divide between Canada's urban and rural areas just keeps getting wider. If we care about national unity, we need to find a way to bridge that before it's too late, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Max Fawcett talks to the Calgary 2021 mayoral runner-up Jeromy Farkas about political highs and lows and Alberta's post-election blues on the latest episode of Maxed Out.
Mike Mercredi, a volunteer firefighter from Fort Chipewyan, Alta., says he is among a group of community members on standby who have been setting up sprinklers on neighbourhood streets as crews work to contain the flames north of the hamlet.
The most important issue in Alberta's election was the one nobody touched: the energy transition and its impact on the province's future. Why Albertans will end up paying the price of that — and why Danielle Smith seems determined to raise the cost.
Danielle Smith's electoral victory in Alberta could spell the beginnings of a renewed confrontation between her province and Ottawa over climate policy — and create fodder for future attacks against the federal Tories, political observers say.
A summer forecast warns western wildfires will likely continue to be “a major concern," with higher-than-normal temperatures expected when the second fire season ramps up in July and peaks in August.